Aside from that conviction where she cannot even come up with a single believable rebuttal against the complaints filed against her by a private person—relying instead on technicalities—Maria Ressa cannot even debunk allegations about her citizenship and the shady business practices of Rappler often reported in a small sector of mainstream media. For the longest…
Your average specimens of Pinoy netizens are once again quick to react with irrationality and emo-ness towards the closing of corporate media giant ABS-CBN by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)—calling it a “brazen move by the government to stifle press freedom.” What is lost in all the hullabaloo here is that what happened to…
June 15, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo eruption one of the terrifying memories of the people of my hometown. Ashfall, darkness, and grief this was some of the vivid memories I had when Mt. Pinatubo erupted food was being rationed, it was dark for days, my grandmother and her sisters kept praying out of fear they keep…
“First of all, we must dispense with the twisted idea of ‘media freedom,’ at least in the terms by which it is defined by those who now cry that it is under threat. Freedom of speech or expression is considered a near-sacred right in most democratic societies, including this one. But freedom of expression is…